Books: Yukon Honeymoon

When seven-year-old Connie was asked what she was going to be when she
grew up, she answered: "Explorer." Later, at the University
of Arizona in 1941, she met, and later married, adventurous,
23-year-old Bud Helmericks, an Arizona hunter who could handle a boat
as smartly as he could bring down a wild duck. He wanted his new wife
to become "a killer of bears." One hour after their wedding,
Bud and Connie boarded a ship for Alaska, bent on a canoe trip down the
Yukon, third longest...